{"id":16182,"date":"2020-01-09T13:40:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T09:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=16182"},"modified":"2020-01-09T13:57:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T09:57:59","slug":"salah-more-expensive-than-messi-and-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/01\/09\/salah-more-expensive-than-messi-and-ronaldo\/","title":{"rendered":"Salah more expensive than Messi and Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Messi was in fantastic form once again for Barcelona this season, scoring a staggering 51 goals in 52 appearances across all competitions for the Catalan club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Argentine forward also registered an outrageous 18 assists in an age-defying campaign, with the 31-year-old continuing to provide jaw-dropping attacking returns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, new research from CIES Football Observatory only ranks Messi as the fourth most expensive footballer currently playing in the \u2018big five\u2019 European Leagues.<br><br>Using a unique algorithm that takes into account a wide range of variables including age, contract status, position, minutes, goals, international status and team results, the Barca talisman is valued at \u20ac167.4million (\u00a3148.9m).<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This puts Messi fourth on the overall list of transfer values, trailing a couple of Premier League stars after one of the most exciting title races in recent seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Real Madrid\u2019s newest signing Eden Hazard is ranked 19th with a value of \u20ac120.7m (\u00a3107.3m) after his official unveiling at the Bernabeu.<br><br>Reports claim Los Blancos paid \u00a388m for the Belgian, with the fee potentially rising to \u00a3150m with add-ons, which would eclipse his estimated value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messi was in fantastic form once again for Barcelona this season, scoring a staggering 51 goals in 52 appearances across all competitions for the Catalan club. The Argentine forward also registered an outrageous 18 assists in an age-defying campaign, with the 31-year-old continuing to provide jaw-dropping attacking returns. However, new research from CIES Football Observatory &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16184,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182\/revisions\/16184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}